NU DVDRW crouching writing, hidden drivers

I got this here little NU DVDRW DDW-082 writer a little while ago for no reason what so ever, other than it was cheap. Of course, you get what you pay for; the drive has not succeed writing all but twice. Under just about every DVD writing software (and trust me, I've tried a lot of them) I end up with "Write Error" or "Media write error" ... usually no explanation or anything. I've tried turning off just about all peripheral software running and it doesn't seem to help.

Ok, so I reinstall windows (xp pro sp1) and get a little better overall performance, yet the DVD writer still makes the same damn error. I go to NU Tech website, and they have drivers listed... which are all for MAC. Why is this? No idea, once again they offer little otherwise help.

So now I ask you honorable experts to possibly look into this here problem.
The system at question consists of the following:

Memorex *should* be OK but it's really quite important to try a few different brands; as I said earlier, some drives are pickier than others so try one or two good quality name brands, and try different

Hi Serg,
If a file that you are trying to burn is corrupt in any way then those errors will come up. Try burning some known good files and see if it works. Also when you burn cd to cd if the original cd has a bad scratch the same errors will occur.

Serg, it's hard to give you a really definitive answer based on the evidence, but here's my best guess.

There shouldn't be any issue with drivers as the necessary drivers will be generic ones that come with XP, plus any drivers added by applications such as Roxio.

I hate to say this, but I don't think having successfully burned a few DVD's is hopeful; I once had a CD burner that failed by gradually burning fewer and fewer good CD's; it was still able to create the occasional good one at the point that I threw it out :)

You really have two variables to play with I think, and that's the DVD media and burn speeds. You might consider picking up 1 or 2 brand name quality DVD blanks and seeing if that makes a diference. Some burners are more particular about certain brands than others. I would use Nero as the burning software for this test (although Roxio is OK, too). So as not to use up all your blanks, try doing a "test" before an actual burn. Also, see if it performs better at lower burn speeds (it's even possible that you have really inferior media that aren't rated at the burn speed you're trying to use).

Other than that, wooden_dude is probably right on -- take it back........

I found updated flashware which seemed to make it a bit better, during simulation (which is the only thing I do with DVDs now because they aren't quite so cheap) the burn process fails to write "end of disk at once." I successfully burned a data DVD in multisession, but apparently my computer won't recognize a disk that hasn't been closed. So... a clue!

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I'm starting to think that perhaps I got less than wonderful DVD blanks...
Memorex 4x DVD-R ... is that a decent disk?
By the way, what is the difference between DVD-R and DVD+R? I've seen them both mentioned separately and didn't even realize plus and minus are separate things, thought it was just a dash.

Memorex *should* be OK but it's really quite important to try a few different brands; as I said earlier, some drives are pickier than others so try one or two good quality name brands, and try different burn speeds.

I once had problems with Memorex CD blanks -- they worked OK for audio and data but never worked right for making SVCD's (to play on DVD players) so I've been kind of leery of the Memorex brand...

DVD-R and DVD+R are different standards - DVD+R is newer, and they have different compatibilities with DVD players; DVD-R tends to have higher compatibility, and in fact for newer players made within the last few years DVD-R should be compatible in virtually all cases (if you're making DVD videos).

Fujifilm is one of the more dependable brands... but you should be able to find others too. It may well be that your burner prefers DVD+R's --- even though burners are stated as being compatible with DVD+R and DVD-R, I notice that the actual media often name a different set of "compatible with" brands in their +R and -R variants...

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